Alcohol, Speed Likely Factors in ATV Crash That Killed Teenage Girl

Police say alcohol and speed are likely factors in an ATV accident that claimed the life of an 18-year-old girl.

Haley Cummings, 18, of Sidney, was a passenger on a Polaris 850 ATV operated by Alexander Biddle, age 21 of Pittston on Friday, Sept. 18. Cummings was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS personnel.  Biddle was transported by ambulance to Maine General Medical Center in Augusta with non-life threatening injuries, according to a news release from the Maine Warden Service.

Evidence at the scene indicated the ATV traveled off the side of a gravel driveway and into the ditch at an apparent high rate of speed striking several trees, ejecting Cummings, and rolled on top of Biddle.

The accident is still under investigation.